Pope Francis To Skip Nigeria During Visit To Africa

Pope Francis will visit Africa for the first time in November.



The Pope will be visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African
Republic, the Vatican said. He will visit Kenya from November 25 to
27, spend the next two days in Uganda, and travel on to the Central
African Republic, where the trip will wind up on November 30; TIMES
LIVE reports.

In Uganda, Pope Francis will commemorate the canonization by Pope Paul
VI in 1964 of the first African saints - 22 young people killed in
1878 on the orders of the local ruler because they refused to renounce
Christianity.